Moving compass
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There were a couple of interactive installation at Designmai Youngsters. Ipunkt is a personal orientation system for visitors of museums, fairs or other big buildings and events. Each visitor is assigned a circle and is guided by numbers and colours.
Locations which are farer away come into the inner circle when you come closer to your destination. The circle size addapts its radius to the speed you are walking with. So if you are running you are still able to use the navigation system. By entering the Ipunkt area with a group, every member gets a number so you are always able to find the others (at the moment the application can be used by up to 15 people). If you need additional information about a location, a «ticker» will give you the information you need. Go to the location of your choice and the «ticker» will activate after a few seconds if you are not Quite nice, i liked the graphics, the space to experiment it was rather tiny so it's hard to tell how it could be like in a big fair and the system is not very intuitive so i wonder how much time it would take to master it. By Jeffrey Gold & Oliver Ellger at UDK. |
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-so let either the museum become more uncommunicative than it is already....
not all museums are uncommunicative!
maybe i didn't make myself very clear. i think ipunkt is a great idea i was just wondering how easy it will be to be used by some people
NIce Projekt. *props* to my class mates
true,not all museums are uncommunicative-but me was talking about vistors who seem more scared if you try to talk to them, about what you see,than happy-in the end it`s the people who use technology in a communicative way- I don`t have the impression that technique makes us become more communicative.Sometimes it seems to me that we forget the possibility to talk directly to each other-which is very important as I think
greez l.
hmm... ??? that's curious!
EXACTLY THE SAME IDEA has been published half a year ago by students OF THE SAME SCHOOL!!!
have a look on: http://www.picamotics.com/
I call that PLAGIARISM!
Checking the link, i don't see any hints, neither when "picamotics" was released nor who released it, nor any explanation of how it works o.O ... but according to the cache of google, the site is pretty young, so i would be very careful speaking of plagiarism.
Strange thing!
We are on talking to the guys with «The same projekt» but the problem is that they researched about tracking possibilities in a given space and DO NOT developed an certain orientation system with its interface like we did.
We presented the project in February and our blog (and Interface!) consists since Dez 05.
THEY updated their in our university «unknown and not documentated» project in May 06, right after our presentation at the DMY 06.
Actually the Idea of using a compass, circle etc. is not far from the concept orientation!
The website http://www.picamotics.com/ is empty and cached at May 06.
Our project has a different concept and actually uses a different technical device like a eyesweb libary of Jens Wunderling we transformed.
Tracking with a webcam is not an «only one» developement.
We deal with the same problem but realized it in a different way:
1. ubit.de/ipunkt
2. http://www.design.udk-berlin.de/HermannKloeckner/Archiv
Greetz to the community and thanks for input